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Why? More Twitter followers. More website clicks. I'm a huge fan of Twitter since I…",{"value":56,"source":57,"evidence":58},"Twitter users wanting more followers, such as indie makers","inferred",[59,60,63],{"id":53,"by":11,"text":54},{"id":61,"by":11,"text":62},"32250388","The only reason I built Birdy is because I'm totally a fan of the platform :D I'm not so much a fan of the App Store platform. As far as Twitter Profile A\u002FB Testing goes, it is…",{"id":64,"by":11,"text":65},"32251037","I have about 15 users. Because they want to optimize their profile and perfect the funnel that converts profile visitors into followers :D Or test out which profile converts to…",{"value":67,"source":50,"evidence":68},"Fan of Twitter and the indie maker community",[69,70],{"id":53,"by":11,"text":54},{"id":61,"by":11,"text":62},[72,78],{"value":73,"source":50,"evidence":74},"Tailwind CSS",[75],{"id":76,"by":11,"text":77},"32252314","Thank you! Yes, custom built with Tailwind. First I wanted to use a landing page template, but then I decided it would be easier to just build it myself hehe",{"value":79,"source":50,"evidence":80},"Twitter API",[81],{"id":82,"by":11,"text":83},"32251235","That is correct - it switched your profile version at a regular interval. Indeed, that's the only way I could do it. The Twitter API has its limitations :D I didn't know there…","unknown","launched","solo",{"praise":88,"objections":120,"requests":143,"questions":168,"alternatives":183},[89,105],{"value":90,"source":91,"evidence":92},"Polished design and landing page","commenter",[93,97,101],{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"32252283","mattgreenrocks","Looks slick. Really like the landing page, did you do it yourself?",{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"32251091","asciii","Great job, I also like the layout of your site to show it off.",{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"32250228","dewey","Cool idea, looks very polished. I guess for this to work best, you need to be very consistent with putting out content to get a good baseline? The Twitter maker community is…",{"value":106,"source":91,"evidence":107},"Simple, useful idea",[108,112,116],{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"32250279","atestu","What a great, simple idea. Way to follow through and actually make it happen! Random ideas: * Pricing: you could tie pricing with the performance (pay $1 per extra followers that…",{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},"32251076","throwaway2016a","Great job. If I ever figure out how to get a non-bot conversion rate > 0.0% I'd love to try this :) Twitter is a mystery to me.",{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"32250529","dagorenouf","This looks super handy",[121,136],{"value":122,"source":91,"evidence":123},"Switching profile versions over time is not true A\u002FB testing because users are not randomly bucketed",[124,128,132],{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"32251085","shay_ker","If I’m understanding correctly, this switches your profile on some interval between A and B, whereas a proper A\u002FB test will randomly bucket a user to experiment A or B. Not that…",{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},"32253915","sreejithr","Don't want to rain on your parade but this is in no way a scientific A\u002FB test. If I understand this correctly, Birdy periodically switches profile information b\u002Fn A and B. * How…",{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"32253047","jwilber","I like the website! There is no “testing” going on here, unfortunately. You’re just taking turns placing users in the treatment or control group, arbitrarily, depending on when…",{"value":137,"source":91,"evidence":138},"Users can see both versions, which skews results",[139,140],{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},{"id":141,"by":11,"text":142},"32254708","I suppose that the issue is that a single user could see both versions, which could skew the data. I'm not sure I totally understand why, because if a user follows you after…",[144,154,161],{"value":145,"source":91,"evidence":146},"Switchback randomized testing instead of fixed interval switching",[147,151],{"id":148,"by":149,"text":150},"32251642","yeahboats","I think what you really want to do is randomize A or B within each 30m (or 5m) interval. This is basically switchback testing. 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